Sentences with phrase «dualistic tendencies»

Gnostic ideas are also found in the dualistic tendencies of some churches to emphasize the spiritual realm over the physical.

Christians, especially Western Christians, on the other hand, have had dualistic tendencies for centuries.

A Christian and a member of a Buddhist family, she was in a double bind: as a Christian she had to prove to her people that she was not «the instrument of foreign aggressors,» and as a Chinese woman she was concerned about Christianity's «dualistic tendency and patriarchal bias.»

It is the dualistic tendency inherent in these separations that leave man swinging between angelism and animalism, prudery and permissivism, rigorism and indecency, repression and indulgence.

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When we experience dis - ease, there is a tendency to think in terms of absolutes — curable or incurable — partly due to Western medicine's Biomedical Model, and partly due to modern society's dualistic nature.